Job 27:18

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The house he builds is as fragile as a moth’s cocoon, like a hut that a watchman has made.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 8:14-15 : 14 whose trust is in something futile, whose security is a spider’s web. 15 He leans against his house but it does not hold up, he takes hold of it but it does not stand.
  • Isa 1:8 : 8 Daughter Zion is left isolated, like a hut in a vineyard, or a shelter in a cucumber field; she is a besieged city.
  • Isa 38:12 : 12 My dwelling place is removed and taken away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth; from the loom he cuts me off. You turn day into night and end my life.
  • Isa 51:8 : 8 For a moth will eat away at them like clothes; a clothes moth will devour them like wool. But the vindication I provide will be permanent; the deliverance I give will last.”
  • Lam 2:6 : 6 ו(Vav) He destroyed his temple as if it were a vineyard; he destroyed his appointed meeting place. The LORD has made those in Zion forget both the festivals and the Sabbaths. In his fierce anger he has spurned both king and priest.

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    15He leans against his house but it does not hold up, he takes hold of it but it does not stand.

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    19He goes to bed wealthy, but will do so no more. When he opens his eyes, it is all gone.

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    16If he piles up silver like dust and stores up clothing like mounds of clay,

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    28So I waste away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.

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